Sökning: "vowel system"

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1. 1. The Vowel System of a Shetland Accent of Scottish Standard English : A segmental analysis

   Författare :Peter Sundkvist; Gunnel Melchers; John Harris; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :Lerwick; Shetland; Shetland dialect; Scottish Standard English; Accents of English; Vowel systems; Subsystems; The Scottish Vowel Length Rule; Vowel softening;

   Sammanfattning : This study presents a comprehensive description of the stressed vowel system of the local accent of Scottish Standard English spoken in Lerwick, Shetland. A judgement sample of eleven informants was obtained through a network model. LÄS MER

3. 2. The Vowel Systems of Five Iranian Balochi Dialects

   Författare :Farideh Okati; Åke Viberg; Carina Jahani; Pétur Helgason; Jan-Olof Svantesson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Balochi; Persian; Iranian Balochi dialects; vowel system; Common Balochi; fronting; diphthongization; nasalization; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

   Sammanfattning : The vowel systems of five selected Iranian Balochi dialects are investigated in this study, which is the first work to apply empirical acoustic analysis to a large body of recorded data on the vowel inventories of different Balochi dialects spoken in Iran. The selected dialects are spoken in the five regions of Sistan (SI), Saravan (SA), Khash (KH), Iranshahr (IR), and Chabahar (CH) located in the province Sistan and Baluchestan in southeast Iran. LÄS MER

4. 3. A grammar of Jahai

   Författare :Niclas Burenhult; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Kinesiska och språk och litteratur från Syd- och Sydostasien; Chinese; Languages and literatures of South and South-East Asia; expressives; argument; agreement; syntax; modality; Aktionsart; aspect; nominalisation; unitisation; reduplication; cliticisation; affixation; derivational morphology; prestopped nasals; phonology; vowel nasality; Malaysia; endangered languages; Austroasiatic; Mon-Khmer; Jahai; Aslian; Grammar; semantics; semiotics; Grammatik; semantik; semiotik; Phonetics; Fonetik; fonologi;

   Sammanfattning : Jahai, a language belonging to the Aslian branch of the Mon-Khmer language family, is spoken by a group of about 1,000 hunter-gatherers in the montane rainforests of northern Peninsular Malaysia. Drawing on linguistic data collected in the field, the present dissertation is a study of the grammar of Jahai. LÄS MER

5. 4. Phonological Quantity in Swedish Dialects : Typological Aspects, Phonetic Variation and Diachronic Change

   Författare :Felix Schaeffler; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Swedish dialects; phonological quantity; vowel and consonant duration; cluster analysis; linguistic typology; phonetic variation; diachronic change; Phonetics; Fonetik;

   Sammanfattning : This study investigates the realisation of phonological quantity in the dialects of Modern Swedish, based on a corpus containing recordings from 86 locations in Sweden and the Swedishspeaking parts of Finland. The corpus was recorded as part of the national SweDia project.The study is explorative in character. LÄS MER

7. 5. Structures in Germanic Prosody : A diachronic study with special reference to the Nordic languages

   Författare :Tomas Riad; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

   Sammanfattning : This study provides a reconstruction of the development of the Germanic stress and syllabification system (as reflected in Gothic and Proto-Nordic) up to the completion of the quantity shift in Late Old Swedish. By means of current prosodic theory it is established that a domain of two moras wordinitially is present at all stages of development, in Gothic, Old English and Proto-Nordic as well as in Modem Swedish. LÄS MER